Doomhammer Movie Preview

We are continuing our series of movie image reveals with Doomhammer today. Check out our Warcraft Movie Hub for more film coverage and a link to buy tickets.

This weapon was wielded by Orgrim Doomhammer during the First and Second War, later passed down to his close friend Thrall. You can find Thrall wielding Doomhammer throughout all of the expansions. While the weapon has a simple appearance, more details have been added to it over the years.

Doomhammer is a weapon Enhancement Shaman can acquire in Legion, along with the molten lava offhand Fury of the Stonemother. Thrall finds himself unable to connect with the elements and wield Doomhammer after the events of Warlords of Draenor.

Forged in elemental lava on the orc homeworld of Draenor, this massive hammer is connected deeply with the elements, and its true power is only awakened in the hands of those who can speak to the elements in kind. The Doomhammer was long wielded by Orgrim Doomhammer, one of the greatest orc warriors of the Horde, and now rests with Thrall, one of the most powerful shaman Azeroth has ever known.

As an Artifact Weapon, players will use this weapon throughout the upcoming expansion, unlocking new traits like Doom Winds and modifying existing abilities. Players can also unlock additional colors and weapon styles for their Artifact as they complete Legion achievements! A full list of artifact traits and appearances can be found on the Artifact Calculator.

Warcraft Movie Capture the Flag

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Two teams representing the Horde and the Alliance battled it out in a real-life game of Capture the Flag at Universal Studios Hollywood—and we’ve got the video to prove it.

The Warcraft movie–inspired clash took place at the #WarcraftIRL Capture the Flag event hosted by Legendary Pictures on Sunday, May 15. Each team was made up of well-known creators including Bajheera, OMGitsfirefoxx, and Markiplier, who fought to determine which faction would be declared the ultimate victor. To shake things up, game designer–turned-warlock Brian Holinka joined the battle royale to rain some Fel Fire down upon both teams.

Watch the video now to see who came out on top in this real-life Battleground.

Loot from Timewalking bosses scales up to ilvl 660 at lvl 100, with a chance it can be Warforged and ilvl 675 instead. Use our Timewarped items filter or visit our Wrath of the Lich King dungeon pages to see what items you can pick up.

Legion Beta Testing

Skirmishes have been enabled on the Legion beta, and the Legion pre-launch event is being stress tested. Early on in the alpha, we took a look at the prototype version of this event, in which low-level zones had demonic activity:

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On Thursday, June 2, starting at 4:00 p.m. PDT, we will activate a new realm in the Legion Beta. This Beta realm will be named “Level 100 Demon Invasions”, and it will be dedicated to testing the pre-expansion demon invasion event with as many testers as possible for approximately 24 hours. We expect to remove the realm after 24 hours.

We ask that all Beta testers please join us in focusing testing on the “Level 100 Demon Invasions” realm when it is available. While you may see demon invasions on other Beta realms, testing this content requires that your character remain at level 100, so we ask that you test on the “Level 100 Demon Invasions” realm only.

Please direct your pre-Legion event feedback to the Beta General Discussion forum, and please direct any feedback you have about other Legion subjects to the appropriate dedicated subforum.

Thank you very much! We’ll see you at the defense of Azeroth!

Desvin

Thanks for your continued participation in the beta. We've been reading all of your feedback and appreciate your contribution.

We've decided to re-enable skirmish queues on beta so we can start getting some arena feedback on honor talents. Jump in there and let us know what you think.

Comment by Arraya

Comment by Random0223

Here's to hoping this means pre-patch soon. Just conjecture, but patch history indicates it should be available on, or slightly before July 30th.

Comment by Quickshoti

on 2016-06-02T11:31:35-05:00

Craving for new content!

Comment by rumcajs

on 2016-06-02T11:53:30-05:00

Speaking of Doomhammer, will we be able to choose whether we want the off-hand one to be sheathed or not?

Comment by HighlanderBoots

on 2016-06-02T12:36:39-05:00

Gotta love the artifact Doomhammer. In my mind I picture this exchange with Thrall:Me: Hey Thrall, did you ever try this? (makes Fury of the Stonemother offhand)Thrall: You can do that? It never did that for me!Me: Noob.

Comment by Feelthechill

on 2016-06-02T13:51:46-05:00

Pre event at end of this month possibly? *Wishes*

Comment by Interest

on 2016-06-02T14:08:39-05:00

Pre event at end of this month possibly? *Wishes*

IIRC, the patch is hitting somewhere around that time (or early next month).

Comment by Falkir

on 2016-06-02T14:15:13-05:00

Could you please mark the paragraph where we learn why we get Doomhammer in Legion as a spoiler?

Comment by TwoTastyTicTacs

on 2016-06-02T14:33:53-05:00

Gotta love the artifact Doomhammer. In my mind I picture this exchange with Thrall:Me: Hey Thrall, did you ever try this? (makes Fury of the Stonemother offhand)Thrall: You can do that? It never did that for me!Me: Noob.

Amazing! :')

Comment by bladtm

on 2016-06-02T14:34:16-05:00

i wonder if there will be something extra special at our dark portal during the pre launch event. It would be awesome if the legion took that area over in some way.

Comment by bladtm

on 2016-06-02T14:36:26-05:00

Gotta love the artifact Doomhammer. In my mind I picture this exchange with Thrall:Me: Hey Thrall, did you ever try this? (makes Fury of the Stonemother offhand)Thrall: You can do that? It never did that for me!Me: Noob.

this kind of posts is the reason why i think we need to be able to upvote reactions on this kind of pages aswell :P

any chance we could convice Blizzard to implement this ingame?

Comment by Stormblink

on 2016-06-02T15:02:34-05:00

Good to know Blizzard has no check on Beta keys, I know like 4 people who aren't even doing the beta yet have the keys.

Safe to bet that Blizz will have server crashes again with the week before Launch.

Comment by Castrum

on 2016-06-02T15:08:13-05:00

Thrall finds himself unable to connect with the elements and wield Doomhammer after the events of Warlords of Draenor.

Yeah... pretty sure this is a Spoiler, guys. Fail.

Now that the cat is out of the bag though, why does this keep Thrall from using Doomhammer? He used it all through WC3 and Vanilla through Wrath without being a Shammy. Sounds like a lazy retcon to me.

Comment by TosuroWoW

on 2016-06-02T15:17:00-05:00

Do you know why Blizzard is making the game worse every time? Because they keep inviting the same beta testers over and over again, and keep getting the same carebear and hardcore feedback over and over again. There's no feedback from the "middle class" players. It's not about hating or loving things. It's simple really, if you do the same thing over and over again and expect different results... you know how that ends.

Comment by remotettl

on 2016-06-02T15:36:03-05:00

wish i could participate and stream beta testing. but sadly, there is no such chance.

and hammer looks like something to dig into when legion hits the stores. means, elemental shaman`ism and restoration will be gone from my shamans specializations :) goodie!

Comment by Enril766

on 2016-06-02T15:55:24-05:00

Too bad that hammer isnt the real doomhammer.

Comment by MiguelStormfist

on 2016-06-02T16:07:09-05:00

Thrall finds himself unable to connect with the elements and wield Doomhammer after the events of Warlords of Draenor.

Yeah... pretty sure this is a Spoiler, guys. Fail.

Now that the cat is out of the bag though, why does this keep Thrall from using Doomhammer? He used it all through WC3 and Vanilla through Wrath without being a Shammy. Sounds like a lazy retcon to me.

He's been a Shaman all along, taught by Drek'thar himself. In WC3 he attacked with lighning balls, and had the Chain Lightning spell, but he was also trained by humans to be a Gladiator (He was a slave, forced to fight for the entertainment of Lord Blackmoore, that was the one who gave him the name "Thrall", his real name is Go'el, but he decided to keep using Thrall to not forget what he went through). It's just that the elements dont hear his call after what he did to Garrosh... or more precisely, how he used the elements to kill Garrosh. It's just like Mjollnir, he's not worthy of it anymore. If any of you are curious about how he lost the Doomhammer, and how you retrieve it, Wowhead has a preview video of that quest here